Tire Size Guide

**WDE_BDY** · 09-01-2006, 02:15 PM

You can alter all the gear ratios, diff ratio and tyre size and revs to suit your car, all the green cells can be changed without messing anything up.

Callum

**newbien** · 09-01-2006, 03:06 PM

is there anywhere i could go to get such info as gear ratio's for my car

**wilbo666** · 09-01-2006, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by newbien

is there anywhere i could go to get such info as gear ratio's for my car

Step 1) look at firewall plate and get gearbox / diff codes
Step 2) google for said gearbox and diff codes
Step 3) enrol in rocket surgery course

and enjoy newfound gearbox / diff ratios.

Cheers
Wilbo

**newbien** · 09-01-2006, 07:07 PM

or alternatively you could just go here....
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/P...Gearboxes.html

**oldcorollas** · 10-01-2006, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by Dimitri

and you musnt have been looking very hard if you have never seen a car in japan with stretched tyres. i actually worked at patrick autocare for quite a long time, my duties at that company ment i was often on the wharf and in contact with both large and small volume imports.. i tell you what, i highly doubt they put on there show tyres before they send their 2nd hand cars to our shores.

points taken and accepted

as for not seeing cars with stretched tyres in japan... i have only been here for 7 months, and only been to tokyo 4 or 5 times (shibuya, shinjuku, odaiba, etc etc), and also nara, kyoto, osaka etc.... but in my experience, i have never seen a car with stretched tyres driving on a japanese road.... i have seen one or two in bodgy car yards, but none of them have current rego

sure there must be some somewhere, but it is not common, and apparently not on daily rivers (i drive every day

)

i am curious if they are used on roads here, or if it is just for weekend/track bitch cars, or just purely for show....

(now it is snowing, ppl have their shit rims and snowtyres on, and i very much doubt anyone would bother stretching a snow tyre for daily use...)

oh, and for those ppl who can afford good tyres with stiff sidewalls.... well... recommended rim size is the go

i wouldn't swap my RE-01R's for anything.... except maybe the nxt ones up in the range

**EldarO** · 10-01-2006, 01:25 AM

i have a set of 14x6" rims, 185's fit well
i have a set of 15x6's with 195, they fit well
i have a set of 17x 7 and 8", the 8" rims fit well, the 7" rims bludge out a bit, and look cool.

Eldar.O.

**newbien** · 10-01-2006, 01:31 AM

i use stretched tyres on the road on my daily driver
and i drive it atleast 4 hours a day at work and more after

does anyone know if any tyre companies make a 165/60/14 or any lower profile 175/165/14's????

**o_man_ra23** · 11-01-2006, 01:26 PM

I dont think tyre companies would waste their time newbien... I know that my old 18RC(read poo) used to annihalate 185's, and as such, most motors would make short work of 165s. Also, running such a narrow tyre in the wet increases the danger of wheelspin. A wider tyre would be much nicer in wet weather(be careful, go too wide and you get aquaplaning... my 225s used to do a little of that, but the 195s on the front kept things straight.)

So, from all that info, a 165/60/14 would be a very specialty size, and would cost as much as a correct width tyre with stiff sidewalls.

Cheers, Owen

**newbien** · 11-01-2006, 11:39 PM

fair enough.... im just thinking of some shitty tyres for some 14x6's

**oldcorollas** · 11-01-2006, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by newbien

fair enough.... im just thinking of some shitty tyres for some 14x6's

stop thinking of shitty tyres

a good tyre may only be $200 each (well.. $300+ for mine

), but the tyre is the limiting factor of your car....
it's acceleration, it's handling, but above all, it's SAFETY....

tyres are the best performance upgrade you can get... since they are the ultimate limiting factor.

G3's, azenis, whatever yokos are out now... there are too many good tyres out there to bother with saving $100 a tyre to buy super shitty ones

ie "i saved $400 on tyres and now i can't stop in the wet, the dry.. or corner half as well as i could.... and i wouldn't have hit that kid that jumped out onto the road"

i used to get "cost effective" tyres... but not anymore